Nail polish drier



Oct.28, 1941.

M. A. LASHA v NAIL POLISH DRIER Filed Nov. 4, 1940 JVZzrZ/zaA; Lasiza ATTORNEYS WITNESS Patented Oct. 28, 1941 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2 Claims.

This invention relates to a nail polish drier and has for an object to provide a device of this character in which a conventional hair drier may be supported to supply a heated air draft for quickly drying slow drying nail polish on the finger nails.

A further object is to provide a device of this character in which the heated air draft is controlled in direction so as not to affect the operator or person using the nail polish drier.

A further object is to provide apparatus of this character which will be formed of a few strong, simple and durable parts, which will be inexpensive to manufacture, and which will not easily get out of order.

With the above and other objects in view the invention consists of certain novel details of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter fully described and claimed, it being understood that various modifications may be resorted to within the scope of the appended claims without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification:

Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional view of a nail polish drier constructed in accordance with p the invention.

Figure 2 is an end elevation of the nail polish drier looking toward the left end of Figure 1 with the conventional hair drier shown in dotted lines.

Figure 3 is a cross sectional View taken on the line 3-3 of Figure 1.

Referring now to the drawing in which like characters of reference designate similar parts in the various views, the nail polish drier comprises a base preferably formed of a substantially oblong blank of wood, or other material. An arched jacket ll, of substantially inverted U- shape in cross section, is secured at the lower edges to the side edges of the base by screws l2, or other connectors. The top wall l3 of the jacket slopes downwardly from a large open end 14 to a small finger entrance end IS. The finger tips having thereon the wet nail polish are inserted in the front open end l5 and are supported upon a metal tray IS. The tray is removably mounted on the front portion of the base and is provided with a curved front end I! which embraces the front end of the base.

The jacket 13 is provided at the front end with a downwardly and rearwardly curved deflector l8 which directs a current of heated air rearwardly through the drier and directly onto the finger nails to dry the polish. The deflector is formed integral with the sheet metal jacket and the lower edge 19 of the deflector is rolled upon itself to form a bead which prevents injury to the users fingers when being inserted in, or withdrawn from, the drier.

Preferably, a conventional electric hair drier 20 is used since in beauty parlors there are several of these usually to be found and one that is not being used may be employed as an air heating and blowing means.

For mounting the conventional hair drier 20 in the jacket M, an arched bracket 2| is disposed about midway the length of the base [0 and the legs of the bracket are secured to the side edges of the base by screws 22, or other connectors. The bracket slopes downwardly and forwardly at the top as shown at 23 and upon this downwardly sloped top of the bracket a tube 24 is secured in any preferred manner. The tube is of sufficient diameter to receive the barrel 25 of the hair drier 20. The tube may be secured to the underneath face of the top of the jacket If to rigidly mount the tube in the jacket.

In operation, the user inserts the tips of the fingers into the open front end l5 of the drier, nails upward, and rests the fingers upon the tray Hi. The hair drier 20, supported in the tube 24, directs a hot air draft downwardly along the lower surface of the top l3 of thejacket, the hot air draft impinging against the deflector l8 and being turned downwardly and rearwardly through the drier and directly upon the polish of the finger nails as shown by dotted lines in Figure 1.

From the above description it is thought that the construction and operation of the invention will be fully understood without further explanation.

What is claimed is:

1. A nail polish drier comprising, a base, an arched jacket secured to the base having a downwardly and forwardly sloping top wall and being open at both ends, a bafile extending downwardly and rearwardly from the top Wall at the front end thereof, a tray upon which the finger tips may be placed removably mounted upon the front portion of the base underneath the baffle, and an air heating and blowing means disposed within the jacket for directing a heated air draft downwardly upon the baffle which latter directs the draft downwardly and rearwardly over the finger nails of the user.

2. A nail polish drier comprising, a base, an arched jacket secured to the base having a downwardly and forwardly inclined top wall, the jacket being open at both ends, a downwardly and rearwardly curved baflie extending from the lower front end of the top wall, a bracket on the base, a tube carried by the upper end of the bracket underneath the top wall of the jacket and sloping downwardly and forwardly toward the bafiie, and an air heating and blowing means having a barrel removably disposed in said tube for directing a hot air draft against the baffle, the bafiie directing the air downwardly and rearwardly in the jacket so as to dry slow drying nail polish on the finger nails of the user inserted in the jacket 5 on the base underneath the baffle.

MARTHA A. LASHA. 

